I paint small oil panels drawn from daily life. My work is grounded in sustained attention, returning through drawing and painting to familiar subjects: rooms, routines, and those closest to me.

Holding is central to the work. I paint with the panel in my hands, working in a single sustained session. The surface bears traces of touch—built up, adjusted, reduced—so that looking and making remain continuous.

Each panel functions as a contained world in which space compresses. Thresholds—doorways, windows, mirrors—extend the image outward, while recesses draw the eye inward.

My palette is pale and luminous, shaped by the diffused light of Dorset’s chalk landscape. Whites and greys act as receptive grounds in which colour gathers. I treat light as both physical and perceptual: a condition of appearance and a mode of attention.

My work attends to a way of seeing in which the ordinary appears luminous and the small expansive.